The Student Scientific Association of Sports Physiology, under the supervision of the Vice Chancellor for Culture, in collaboration with the International Academic Collaboration of Alzahra University, held a workshop on "Physical Activity as a Prescription for Preventing Chronic Diseases" on Sunday, March 8, 2021 from 2 to 4 p.m. The speakers of this workshop were Dr. Mojtaba Kaviani, Assistant Professor of Acadia University and a specialist in physiology and sports nutrition in Canada in the field of strategies for using sports as medicine, evaluation of physical activity, how to prescribe sports to maintain and promote health. He stressed that "the global epidemic of inactivity is the cause of death in Iran and the world, exercise or physical activity is a drug."
Due to the prevalence of coronary heart disease, the meeting was held virtually in Adobe Connect environment with the presence of more than one hundred students and professors of different universities in Iran.